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[challenge entry] Despairlols

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(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:41, archived)
# Yeah, coz we have the BNP flag
as our country's flag don't we ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:43, archived)
# sadly
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:45, archived)
# fuckers
ruined it
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:53, archived)
# which was largely the point of the post
fuck the BNP
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:54, archived)
# i know!
i was just agreeing!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:55, archived)
# I totally didn't mean that in a bad way at you.
just that Redsushi seems to be blind as to whats happening to our country.
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:58, archived)
# O Rly?
The BNP have a very strong foothold do they then?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:01, archived)
# with 192,746 votes in last election
i'd say that was pretty substantial
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:03, archived)
# well generally speaking
in a depression, history has shown that hard right wing groups (or left wing i think, occasionally) are going to get more votes
(I helped save b3ta! dogigniter - Saving the world one turkey ham wrap at a time -, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:05, archived)
# Good job we're not in a depression now then.

A depression requires a 10% shrinking of the economy. We've had about a 2.5% shrinkage, and we're through the worst of it. Japan and Germany have already reported a return to economic growth.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:07, archived)
# Point taken
good news about japan, great scientific nation... got some strange customs and culture though, like the whole schoolgirls knickers vending machines they have on the streets in Tokyo?
(I helped save b3ta! dogigniter - Saving the world one turkey ham wrap at a time -, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:10, archived)
# 2000 years of violent brutal oppression suddenly released overnight with no period of adjustment.
What do you get? Anime.

As for the recession; the economic problems are more or less over really. It's the long-term social problems we need to worry about. Domestic violence, drug abuse and alcholism all increase dramatically during a recession and continue to increase even after return to growth. Some councils have already seen a two-fold increase in domestic violence in their areas.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:13, archived)
# Just to confuse things
all anti-social and criminal behaviour needs the word "reported" in front of it.
An increase in reported crime might mean people trust the police more than they did 10 years ago to do something about it: A good sign.
OK a little devils advocate, but you get my point.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:22, archived)
# Yes, quite right. The word 'reported' was implied.

Although the government's official line is that they expect an increase in reported social problems as a direct result of the recession.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:24, archived)
# I wouldn't.
What with there being about 40 million voters and all.

Mossley's Fascists got more votes than that.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:06, archived)
# oh good
fascism is better phew
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:09, archived)
# Yes,
because Mossley became Prime Minister and everything.

If you talk about the BNP as if they were a threat, you make them into a serious political party. For decades they've been a joke, and now you people are pandering to them and giving them exactly what they want - serious attention. If you treat them like a genuine threat, what happens is that every anti-establishment nut-job and tinfoil hat wearing buffoon comes out of the woodwork and starts voting for them because they become the new 'anti-establishment' party. That's what happened with the fascists and the communists. As soon as you treat them like anything more than a bad joke, you lend them a kind of legitimacy in some people's eyes. If you ignore them, they will go away.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:11, archived)
# i know
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:14, archived)
# And yet you still spoke about them as though they were a serious threat.

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:27, archived)
# I still refuse to take them seriously


they are cashing in FAR more because our other parties are shit more than the fact they have anything to offer. It's protest votes, IMHO.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:08, archived)
# Mr Hitler
started by exploiting people's dissatisfaction with the current govt.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:11, archived)
# That was a little
different. Our credit crunch is pocket money to 20s-30s Germany. And the gov that Mr H displaced was little more than a puppet imposed by the LoN.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:14, archived)
# You can't compare a man
who was in a position to limit social access to information with people coming into power today in the age of 24 hour free communication.

Obviously there are exceptions, like North Korea and China, but they have been in the situation from a pre internet age.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:15, archived)
# And
as I pointed out, it was the government-of-the-day's demonising of him that got him so much popularity. If the German government of the 20s and 30s had ignored him, and everyone just drew an amusing cartoon of him and then got on with their lives, he wouldn't have been able to adopt a position of being viewed my many as the legitimate opposition in the eyes of everyone with an anti-government bent. The BNP need to be ridiculed, not fought seriously. The problem is that there has been a lot of guff in the more liberal media about the BNP and what we should do about it. That turns them into a boogey-man, which attracts the loons.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:19, archived)
# Exactly.
It always is with these extreme parties.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:12, archived)
# Beaten by UKIP by 4 times and with no seats won at all.
We are a massively long way from being at risk of being run by the BNP.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:10, archived)
# agreed
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:19, archived)
# Now that they have an MEP
they get money from Brussels. Which is reassuring.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:08, archived)
# 2 seats out of 69 in this country though,
which I don't find worrying when tinpot parties like UKIP can get 13 seats. Shows how shite they are at forcing people to vote for them.

And that is 2 seats in 736. They will get fuck all done. Also, bear this in mind, they are outnumbered by Malta, Luxembourg and Estonia by at least 2 and a half times ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:22, archived)
# There is a small clique of about 20 or so far right MEPs
from groups like the Greater Romania party etc. They wield absolutely no influence and have never succeeded in actually getting any legislation passed. To have influence in a legislative body requires the forming of alliances with other parties. Other MEPs won't even stand next to the far-righters in the lunch queue apparently, so I think we have little to fear. One MEP's salary isn't going to help the BNP all that much. That will buy about 30 seconds of TV air time a year.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:22, archived)
# I will never take Brussels very seriously again either
"Ireland, you can VOTE"




"OK, one more chance, and this time we want the right answer."
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:34, archived)
# They're dropping shit on the moon tomorrow
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:46, archived)
# THEY'RE BLOWING THE FUCKING MOON UP!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:47, archived)
# No, dropping shit
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:48, archived)
# dropping don't work without gravity
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:49, archived)
# There's gotta be some gravity
Otherwise Armstrong and Buzz would have floated away and shit
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:49, archived)
# indeed
but i think they are flying the thing into it at 5,600 mph
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:51, archived)
# its gonna be real interesting
i'm planning on watching it at lunchtime, funnily enough cos its happening about half one, and they're sending a probe after the 'missile' to collect data on the ejecta from the impact, and that'll also impact, so it should be a good one
(I helped save b3ta! dogigniter - Saving the world one turkey ham wrap at a time -, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:58, archived)
# Is it on Nasa TV?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:58, archived)
# yus
(I helped save b3ta! dogigniter - Saving the world one turkey ham wrap at a time -, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:59, archived)
# def!
but you won't see it from the UK, only in America.
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:59, archived)
# it's the begining of the end!!!
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:57, archived)
# haha
i lolled, thats good news though, we can just nuke them now!
(I helped save b3ta! dogigniter - Saving the world one turkey ham wrap at a time -, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:56, archived)
# hahaha
this
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:00, archived)
# lol woo!
fuckers!
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:56, archived)
# BNP moon conversation:
BNP twat 1: "Yay! We own the moon! White British on the moon only, no immigrants allowed."
BNP twat 2: "Technically, we're immigrants now."
BNP twat 1: "Fucksticks."
(I helped save b3ta! Tagnut loves pies, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:00, archived)
# pfffffft
BNP twat 2: *implodes*
(I helped save b3ta! PointlessCamel Last one on drugs is a queer., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 23:01, archived)